Chapter 61 Second Update: Spring Festival Return

By the time we came out of the train station, it was almost dark. It gets dark earlier and earlier in the cold winter.

Considering Ye Yu's high fighting ability, Han Jing did not suggest sending Ye Yu home. If they really encountered danger, Ye Yu would definitely not be the one in danger.

He simply asked about the Ye family's address and found that the two families did not live in the same area and were quite far away from each other.

But since we are in the same city, it is easy to meet each other.

Han Jing asked if he could visit during the Spring Festival and enthusiastically said, "I have gifts! Candied peanuts? Pig's blood cake? Stir-fried steamed buns with white sugar? Fried dumplings? Rice cakes, rice cakes, and hairy eggs?"

He scratched his head. It was indeed a bit inappropriate for a gay man to go to a lesbian's home. However, there were some things that needed to be discussed regarding next year's rural construction plan. Meeting outside during the Spring Festival seemed to have an even worse impact.

"How about just forget it?"

"Do you want to prepare red envelopes in advance?"

Ye Yu’s focus was completely different, and the two asked completely different questions.

“…”

If Xu Fei and Hua Feifei were here, they might suggest canceling the meeting or choosing a more suitable time. After all, Xu Fei is more thoughtful and Hua Feifei is more worldly-wise.

But when the two were away, the disadvantages began to appear.

The rebellious Ye Yu meets the carefree Han Jing. They decide to let things work out when the time comes and just let nature take its course.

This approach was proposed by Ye Yu, and Han Jing actually thought it made sense.

Xu Fei, Hua Feifei:

...Without them, this family will be doomed sooner or later.

After parting with Ye Yu, Han Jing rushed to the nearby tram station to catch the last tram.

Dingdang car is a tram.

There is a bell hanging on the front of the car, and the bell is connected to the pedal. Whenever the driver steps on the pedal to start or brake, the bell will ring, hence the name.

The tram has been running in Yanjing City for three or four decades, and more people ride it than the bus. However, there are too few routes and the number of stops is very limited.

Han Jing's home is not far from one of the platforms, and Han Jing has often taken it since he was a child.

It wasn't until last year that the number of people riding the tram began to decrease. After the Little Red Soldiers in the city of Sijiu were cleared out for theft and robbery in late 1967, the number of people riding the tram gradually increased, especially in the afternoon and evening when GWH was off work, and the plan to stop the tram operation was shelved.

Ye Yu probably didn't expect that just a "small" punishment for the little red soldier who reported her family would bring about so many chain reactions, from the small one mentioned by Han Jing to the big one mentioned by Xu Fei. This feeling is not bad.

Tram passengers might be grateful for not having to brave the cold winter wind, especially when exiting the station with bags in hand.

Han Jing, who got on the bus with a small bag, also met his three childhood friends. They grew up naked in the same compound and were also part of the same group that went to the countryside last year.

When they first met, he almost didn't recognize me.

Zhongzi and Kaizi have changed a lot. They have untidy beards on their faces, are two shades darker, rougher, and thinner. They are a bit like the bamboo-slim figure when he first went to the countryside, but they haven't grown taller.

The name Ma Shengnan suggests a competitive spirit, and this has been her personality since she was young. She is stubborn and never gives up. She wants to compete with her peers no matter what, and she doesn't care about gender, as boys are more competitive.

She looks much more haggard now, not as energetic as before, and the smile on her face has faded a lot, but fortunately her eyes are still clear and bright.

Unlike Han Jing, Zhong Zi, Kai Zi and Ma Shengnan saw him as soon as they came out of the train station.

The main reason is that Han Jing is tall. Among this crowd with an average height of about 1.7 meters, he is definitely conspicuous.

But because Han Jing was standing next to a young and beautiful female comrade at that time, they didn't want to go up and disturb him. As friends, they just watched for a while.

They originally thought that Han Jing would definitely send the female comrade home first, but this idiot let the female comrade walk away in another direction with her big bag in her hand without looking back.

Come on, it’s definitely not a relationship between a man and a woman. Han Jing is not that experienced yet.

What surprised and angered them was that Han Jing didn't recognize them at all and ran past them almost with his bag brushing against theirs.

“…”

After they were in the car for quite a while, the boy stared at them for a few more times before greeting them cheerfully: "Zhongzi, Kaizi, Shengnan!"

Who cares about him?

Han Jing didn't notice his childhood friend's anger at all, and he was still sighing happily: "What a coincidence, we set out together and came back together. It's so good to see you!"

Okay, this kid is sweet-talking, let him go this time.

Zhongzi and Kaizi stepped forward and cooperated to choke Han Jing, and Ma Shengnan kicked him.

The few of them then began to chat about each other's experiences in the countryside.

It was rare for educated youth to adapt to the countryside immediately after going there. Zhong Zikaizi was even more so when he went from the north to the south.

As soon as they arrived in the south, Kaizi collapsed due to severe acclimatization problems and was given an IV drip for several days in the health center before he came back to life. If his family had not had some connections and could have contacted someone locally, he might have died this time.

In fact, the two of them used their family connections to switch to easier jobs instead of working in the fields, but they still couldn't adapt to the direct sunlight from the south, and they also had to change their food, such as pasta and rice. Now the noodles are not white flour, and the rice is not refined rice. The taste is different, and it takes more time to adapt.

When talking about these experiences, they couldn't help but envy Han Jing.

He doesn't look like someone who went to the countryside to engage in construction. If any educated youth went to the countryside and was as fat as him, people who didn't know him would think he was going to be the stupid son of a landlord in the old society.

Han Jing couldn't help but roll his eyes: "Go away, who got fat for nothing? Don't talk nonsense."

He had indeed been eating too well recently, especially the pork bone soup and other foods, which provided him with calcium and other nutritional supplements. The acne on his face had diminished a lot thanks to the moisturizing of clam oil, and his cheeks had gained some flesh, so he no longer looked like the skeleton and bamboo pole he used to be.

From this perspective, he has changed a lot, but they are all for the better.

Unlike Zhong Zikaizi, Ma Shengnan went even further north to the Northeast, and they met at the train station.

The Northeast is a famous granary in our country, so it's naturally plentiful and vast. Although mechanization is stronger than other places, and almost every production team she works for has a tractor, there's still a lot of work to do. Plus, she has some minor problems getting along with the educated youth in the same team, so doesn't that make her even more haggard?

"Tractor?" Han Jing pricked up his ears. "Unfortunately, our production team is in a mountain valley. Four-wheeled vehicles can't get in, and we can't use tractors either."

Ma Shengnan immediately suggested: "We could use a small four-wheeled walking tractor. It's light, compact, flexible, and more suitable for arable land. It's also inexpensive. We used to use this one, but it was a bit difficult to work on large plots of land. We gradually switched to the new crawler tractors produced by the First Tractor Factory."

Han Jing became interested and asked Ma Shengnan about the whereabouts of the batch of second-hand walk-behind tractors.

In fact, Ma Shengnan mentioned this for a purpose. She knew that Han Jing had always been interested in machinery and knew the most among them. She wanted to learn more about mechanics from Han Jing and then take the exam to be a tractor driver. Who said that weak women couldn't be tractor drivers? She didn't believe it!

"Weak woman?" Han Jing's mouth twitched. After meeting Ye Yu, who would dare to describe a woman as weak? "The most amazing thing about our Wangjiagou Production Team is the female educated youth. They are as good as wild boars in martial arts and as good as Zhuge Liang in literature. They can give advice to the world without leaving their homes."

Zhong Zi, Kai Zi, Ma Shengnan: "Blow it!"

Han Jing immediately became dissatisfied. When had he ever boasted before? He immediately chatted with Zhong Zi, Kai Zi, and Ma Shengnan about many interesting things about the Wangjiagou Production Team.

Due to Xu Fei's repeated instructions, they didn't talk much about Ye Yu's hunting and their martial arts practice in public. The forest ranger and Nanshan only mentioned it briefly.

Hadn't Han Jing's article been published? He was just worried he had no one to show off to, and when three childhood friends came up to him, he couldn't help but show off his work; it was his first royalties.

Report?

Is this guy's Chinese even better than theirs? He even made it to the newspaper? "No wonder Wangjiagou sounds familiar. It's the production team that XX Daily wrote about." "Your production team is full of hidden talents among the educated youth." "..."

They were still discussing this until they got off the bus.

The four families lived in a nearby government compound, where many retired military leaders lived, so there were guards on duty 24 hours a day.

Therefore, even when returning home, Han Jing and his friends' luggage had to be checked one by one.

Han Jing didn't bring much with him this time, not even a change of clothes. He had enough at home anyway, so all he brought was food, mainly jars of meat sauce.

The main reason is that this thing is easy to find an excuse, and the meat sauce is made into a dish. Who cares whether it is wild boar or domestic pork? What if their production team has an extra pig in the New Year? Moreover, the proportion of meat sauce can be adjusted, and chili and vegetables can be added to it.

As soon as the jar is opened, the spicy meaty smell rushes into one's nose.

Even guards who lived in the city and had smelled meat frequently due to the approaching New Year could not help but swallow their saliva, let alone Zhongzi, Kaizi, and Ma Shengnan who lived in the countryside and didn't see meat once a month.

Their eyes were red and bleeding. They were very sure that Han Jing was living better in the countryside than at home. They had never seen any educated youth bring so many things home. Combined with the previous reports, this kid was returning home in glory.

In another civilian alley in the old city, Ye Hongjun and Wang Laidie were also struggling with this issue.

I was still confused about it for several days.

If their children were not living well after leaving home, they would certainly worry; if they were living too well, they would also be worried, especially if they had a girl like Ye Yu.

Now that we have the wild boar meat, how can we say that the wild boar forest was invaded by humans? Next time, won’t we be able to fly into the sky and into the ground?

"This little monkey is getting more and more outrageous." Wang Lai Di was both amused and angry at her youngest daughter.

Ye Yu heard her mother's complaints from a distance. Refusing the neighbors' help with the forecast, she slipped away as quickly as she could. As soon as she entered the house, she preemptively said, "I'm back! Dad, Mom, I'm so tired and so hungry. I'm starving."